Not sure about the Watchgaurd nic, but i have used the D-Link DFE-580TX Quad card without any issues
http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=65&products_id=393
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Foster [mailto:dan at melbourne dot co dot uk]
Sent: 22 June 2005 08:12
To: Chris Knight; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] m0n0wall on a WatchGuard Firebox v80?
Hi Chris,
myself, we have four Watchguard fireboxes, which are about to be replaced with m0n0walls (amazing
that a "free" piece of software is more feature-rich than firewalls that costs thousands).
I recently picked up a number of these:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5777740903&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT
Tested them with my m0n0wall test box and they worked great (infact I had three of them in one pc at
one point, and it picked up all 12 ports very happily!)
answer would be that it's probably not worth the hassle if you can swap it out for a "standard" 4
port card...
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Knight [mailto:boheme at gmail dot com]
Sent: 22 June 2005 08:03
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: [m0n0wall] m0n0wall on a WatchGuard Firebox v80?
I recently picked up a WatchGuard FireBox V80 from someone who had given up on their expensive
support. I popped the case and it appeared to be a x86 based mini-pc with a custom 4-port PCI
ethernet card. It boots off CF, so I figured I'd see what happened if I tried to boot it off a
m0nowall image.
Initial boots were spotty, with semi-random crashes with errors such as "Fatal trap 1: privileged
instruction fault while in kernel mode", "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode", "Fatal
trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode", and "Fatal double fault:". Rarely the same
error twice in a row.
First things first, slim down. I removed the 4-port PCI network card. Boot errors went away. It
appears to recognize the dual ethernet ports on the MB, so I have a nice m0nowall based firewall
now.
It would be nice to have those additional 4 ports though. Has anyone ever encountered the "4-PORT
Rapidcard_SBC" PCI ethernet controller that is inside the WatchGuard FireBox V80? I tried dropping
it into a FreeBSD 5-STABLE box with a GENERIC kernel and it failed to be detected properly. I can
post pictures if anyone is curious as to what it looks like.
If this card is completely unworkable due to being custom built for WatchGuard, can anyone suggest a
decent multi-port PCI ethernet controller that works with m0n0wall?
-Chris
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